The hurricanes in the Northeast Pacific almost never hit the U.S., however, whereas the ones in the Atlantic basin strike the U.S. (that is, in the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea), and in the Northeast Pacific basin, to the west of the U.S. "Hurricanes form both in the Atlantic basin, to the east of the continental U.S. Landsea is a researcher at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory/Hurricane Research Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), located in Miami, Fla.
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In Miami, it toppled railroad cars, blew out windows and snapped telegraph poles.Chris W. It crossed the Florida peninsula and headed into Gulf waters before making landfall again west of the Panhandle. Track: As its name implies, the storm barreled directly through the city, after striking the Virgin Islands and the Bahamas. Several feet of water were pushed into Miami, destroying infrastructure and habitations, making it one of the costliest storms of all time. Toll: Hundreds drowned when its storm surge overcame dikes around Lake Okeechobee. In total it killed more than 4,000 people. Track: The storm made landfall on 12 September in Guadeloupe, where it killed an estimated 1,200 struck Puerto Rico as a category 5 storm, killing hundreds more and made landfall near West Palm Beach on 17 September, forcing Lake Okeechobee out of its banks, washing away neighborhoods with 20ft of water and drowning thousands. Toll: One of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes in recorded history, the Okeechobee hurricane of 1928 came directly through the Bahamas to slam the Florida coast, where it killed more than 2,500 people at a time when flood containment measures were rudimentary.
fnc3BLLxhu- George Harrison SeptemOkeechobee, September 1928 #OTD 11SEP1964 played the #GatorBowl in #Jacksonville the day after #Hurricane Dora. Though relatively small, it demonstrated brutal ferocity with wind gusts of up to 175mph and a storm surge flattening residences in square-mile swathes. Track: After tracking directly across the Atlantic toward southern Florida, Andrew made landfall as a category 5 hurricane, the biggest on the Saffir-Simpson scale, in the area of Homestead south of Miami. The storm destroyed 25,524 homes and damaged 101,241, with total estimated damages of more than $25bn, making it at the time the costliest disaster in state history. Toll: Directly responsible for 26 deaths, indirectly responsible for 39, including 44 total in Florida. Only three weeks behind Hurricane Charley, Frances dropped more than a foot of rain, opened sinkholes, knocked out power and damaged the US space exploration facility at Cape Canaveral. Track: Also falling on Labor Day weekend, the storm made landfall as a category 2 hurricane near Port St Lucie, crossed southern Florida and then passed into the Gulf before striking Florida again at the Panhandle. Estimated damages of $9bn, not including agricultural losses. Toll: Directly responsible for seven deaths and indirectly responsible for 43, including 37 total in Florida. It made landfall almost exactly where Frances had on Florida’s east coast and killed three in the state, one in South Carolina and one in Virginia. Track: Three weeks after Hurricane Frances, Jeanne moved north from its devastating blow to Haiti before making an extraordinary 360-degree loop in the western Atlantic to head straight for Florida. Toll: Caused 3,000 or more deaths from flooding and landslides in Haiti before striking Florida, where it was directly responsible for three deaths in the state and almost $8bn in damages.
Here is a list of historic hurricanes that made landfall on Florida’s east coast: Hurricane Jeanne, September 2004 Other notorious recent storms, such as Gustav (2008), Ike (2008) and Katrina (2005), likewise moved through the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall elsewhere, though Katrina glanced off Florida as it entered the Gulf.
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